Jay S. Judge, the senior partner of Judge, James, Hoban & Fisher, LLC, is a trial, appellate and insurance coverage attorney. He has had more than 85 jury trials and 200 appeals on liability and coverage issues. He is a former claims supervisor who currently represents self insured governmental entities, insurance companies and self insured risk pools. He graduated cum laude from John Marshall Law School where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. Jay has a Martindale-Hubbell rating of “AV Preeminent for 30 Years.” He has written two legal columns for over 30 years: “Federal Courts” in...

John Eggum is an associate at Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff PC. He concentrates his practice on representing insurers in insolvency-related matters, particularly in cases under chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Eggum also has substantial experience representing creditors, debtors, trustees and other parties in interest in a wide variety of bankruptcy proceedings.
Mr. Eggum obtained his law degree, with distinction, from The University of Iowa College of Law. His undergraduate degrees, in finance and political science, were also obtained from The University of Iowa. Following law school, Mr. Eggum served as the...

JOHN R. WALKER is a Partner in SBSB's Houston office. For the past almost twenty-five years, it has been my privilege to represent insurance and employer interests focusing on the defense of claims brought under the Longshore and Harbor Act, the Defense Base (DBA), the Non-Appropriated Funds (NAF) Instrumentalities Act, the Jones Act, and General Maritime and Admiralty Law. Additionally, John also has extensive experience in First Party Insurance Defense matters, representing employers, insurance carriers, and third parties in State, Federal and Appellate courts. Prior to joining the firm, John handled First Party Insurance Defense,...

Mr. Sullivan is a defense attorney with extensive experience litigating product liability, toxic tort, asbestos, complex litigation, mass tort, transportation, insurance and general liability claims. Representative matters currently include defending a catastrophic injury case involving a double amputation from a recycling baler, a wrongful death case resulting from maintenance on a street cleaning truck and a breach of warranty action involving fires on two tractor trailers. Joe has been involved in the defense of a wide variety of toxic tort cases for 20 years, including, single plaintiff and multi-plaintiff claims arising from alleged exposure to asbestos, mold, benzene, PCBs...

Kathryn M. Walker graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School where she received the Craig T. Spangenberg Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy for her work in the Michigan Clinical Law Program, representing a variety of clients in state and federal court. In the spring of 2010, Ms. Walker wrote a successful petition for rehearing en banc and, subsequently, submitted a supplementary brief to the Sixth Circuit. She also represented a former inmate in a federal suit against the local county jail for abuse, harassment, and deliberate indifference. Ms. Walker spent two summers working at public defender agencies,...

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